Their vulnerability will increase further if the government does not come forward to help them, said the leaders of the bus owners associations. “We are living in anxiety as the transport sector remained shut down during the entire lockdowns,” said Khandaker Enayetullah, secretary general of Bangladesh Road Transport Owners Association. The bus owners are now facing a dire situation.”The owners are also focusing on the workers’ plights as the pandemic has upended their lives, Enayetullah claimed. He demanded that the government announce a Tk 50 billion incentive package for the transport sector. The loans distributed among transport sector entrepreneurs stood at Tk 40.66 billion as of June 2020, according to the Bangladesh Bank.

Source: bd News24 July 13, 2021 20:15 UTC